Built To Last Quotes

“An easy life is not one where you don’t have to strive. We all strive at some point, but it’s one where the striving costs you very little. It’s the energetic cost that kills us, not the effort involved.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“There is one thing no one tells you about exercise: how you feel about what you do transforms the effect it has on you.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“Resilience begins where routine meets intention.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“We can think our selves thin and we can become stronger and faster through the power of our mind. At the same time it can trip us up, stop us from getting fitter and hold us back in our drive to get healthier and feel stronger.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“We spend so much time processing our thoughts that we often forget to align them with our feelings and it is in that alignment that we begin to find true inner peace.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“The moment we remove the external world from our senses we’ve also removed a large chunk of how we feel inside ourselves. We don’t think with our brain, our brain thinks with the world. We also don’t feel with our body, our body feels with the world. We need the world to exist as feeling machines that think.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“What we often fail to grasp is that “purpose” is as necessary in physical fitness as it is in every other activity of life. It creates drive, delivers meaning and supplies motivation.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“Fitness is not something you do two-three times a week. It's something you experience because of everything you do.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“We each burn, every day, as bright as a 100W bulb!”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“There is no mind/body divide. The two are closely integrated from the ground up. In the past we found it convenient to divide them because one was hidden from us. Unable to observe the mind at work we chose to ignore it and focus on the body. In truth there can be no one without the other.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“Exercise is activity that remakes your body. What we don’t always realize is that it also remakes your brain.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“Of all the animals on the planet we are by far the most adaptive and by far the one most capable of remaking ourselves both inside and out.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“When it comes to exercise we are fighting fire with fire. Inflammation in our body, runs amok, makes us ill. Exercise causes inflammation in the muscles that produce a particular type of protein in response which reduces our sensitivity to interferon which then reduces the body’s inflammatory response. Think of exercise as creating a natural firebreak with a fire we can control and direct in order to stop an uncontrolled fire from spreading and taking over and becoming uncontrollable.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“When it comes to fitness you can never understand what you cannot record. You can never improve what you cannot measure. And, you can never control what you cannot analyze.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life

“Fitness is not what you have been led to believe it is. The only expert on your body is you and though you may, at times, seek outside specialized help the goals and the drive to get fit and stay healthy must come from you.”
― David Amerland, Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life